In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Keep the direct sun from reaching the house and you've won the first battle.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.

That's how he first won the Masters in 1958.

Those Dodgers won their first 10 games and owned a 21-2 mark and a nine-game lead by May 8.

As if to confirm his stature, he quickly won three of the first eight tournaments.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

In the latter, President José Eduardo dos Santos won the first round election with more than 49 % of the vote to Jonas Savimbi's 40 %.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

In 2002, Alumni won its first Nacional title, defeating Jockey Club de Rosario 23-21 in the final.

* 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

However, the Australians fought back and Bradman won his first series in charge 3 – 2.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

He won his first Lenaean victory in the 350s BC, most likely, where he was sixth after Eubulus, and fourth after Antiphanes.

It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port – at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain – but at the time the public were disappointed that he had lost more ships ( mainly due to dangerous ammunition-handling procedures on British battlecruisers ) and had not won a victory as crushing as Trafalgar.

John XXII was neutral at first, but in 1323, when Louis IV had won and became Holy Roman Emperor, the Guelph ( papal ) party and the Ghibelline ( imperial ) party began a serious quarrel.

The pinnacle of Milland's career and acknowledgment of his serious dramatic abilities came in 1946 when he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

He won a quadrangular event at Leiden 1970 with 7 / 12, a point ahead of Jan Hein Donner, who was followed by Larsen and Botvinnik, the latter of whom was making what would be his final appearance in serious play.

Aliyev won re-election to another 5-year term in 1998, in an election marred by serious irregularities.

In 1938 he won the primaries in all major parties, thanks to a system called " cross filing ," and was elected without serious opposition.

Of Morphy's 59 " serious " games — those played in matches and the 1857 New York tournament — he won 42, drew 9, and lost 8.

One of these, the Lehigh Brick and Tile company, won the contract to provide paving brick for Dubuque, Iowa in 1896, but suffered a serious fire in late 1897.

Although they had won they were forced to retreat due to suffering a serious amount of casualties.

He still continued to serve at short intervals with the prince of Orange, who at the time had an alliance with France, and his first serious service under the French flag occurred at the siege of La Mothe in Lorraine by Marshal de la Force ( 1634 ), where his brilliant courage at the assault won him immediate promotion to the rank of maréchal de camp ( equivalent to the modern grade of major-general ).

Now facing serious competition both within GM and from Ford, Dodge, and Plymouth — particularly the low-cost Plymouth Road Runner — the GTO won Motor Trends Car of the Year award, and sales remained strong at 87, 684 ( which would ultimately prove to be the second-best sales year for the GTO ).

He won the loyalty of some Catholics, but had to contend with the opposition of Pius II, which proved one of the most serious obstacles to Poděbrad's rule.

Reid responded in January 1936 that there had been no such mismanagement, that the province's financial problems were due to Social Credit's policies, both real and promised, and that had the UFA won re-election in 1935 it could have continued governing without serious difficulty.

He won a dramatic role with a stock theater company, but was unable to deliver his lines in a serious manner ; the audience laughed instead.

" Carnera met his first serious heavyweight contender, Young Stribling, in 1929, and won when Stribling fouled him.

None of these candidates was seen as serious opposition to Miriani, who had an enormous amount of institutional support and had easily won the mayoral race four years earlier.

He won his district election every two years from 1961 to 1994 without ever facing a challenge more serious than he faced in the Democratic primary in 1988, when Stephen Holt, a neophyte liberal activist and bookstore owner from Dorchester won 31 out of 60 precincts, only to lose the district by a landslide due to the huge turnout of Bulger supporters in South Boston.

Moondog believed he would not have won the case had it not been for the help of musicians such as Benny Goodman and Arturo Toscanini, who testified that he was a serious composer.

He was a serious student and by 1918 completed school and undertook the ‘ State Public Matriculation Examination ’ and won a District merit scholarship to Patna college.

Chaplin arranged a meeting with her, and although he was concerned that she might be too serious for comedic roles, she won the job.

In the 1979 season, Waltrip won seven NASCAR Winston Cup races and was a serious contender for what would have been his first NASCAR Winston Cup Championship.

This was considered a serious coup, as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) had consistently won Olympic broadcast rights from the 1996 Summer Olympics through to the 2008 Summer Olympics.